Do you remember when???

[Moli]

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?


It took five minutes for the TV warm up?



Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?



When a a shilling was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore stockings that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?




You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?

Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did?





When a 57 Holden was everyone's dream car
No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car,
in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a "

and playing footy with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace,
and share it with the children of today

[smudgley]

I love reading things like that - but it makes me sad that society is the way it is now. I often wish my kids could go back in time 20 years & see what my chilhood was all about

[yola]

*sigh* Yes - to most of those, but I don't know what a 57 Holden is/was.

I do remember b/w tellies and one that had only 2 buttons on top of the set; tuning and volume. The buttons were under a flap the you pressed and when if flipped up the TV came on . . . slowly it had little splayed out, screw-in spindly legs like so much else 50s furniture.

[Moli]

Thats the difference, we had a real childhood, Kids nowadays don't have half the freedon we had!!!

[smudgley]

Originally Posted by Moli

Thats the difference, we had a real childhood, Kids nowadays don't have half the freedon we had!!!

True Mol & so sad

[Mags]

Unfortunately I remember most of those too.......oh what the kids of today are missing out on!

[dinahsmum]

.....and do you remember how the pic on the telly always slipped top to bottom....except sometimes when it went side to side instead? And you had knobs to stop it?
Ah..............

[Mags]

......and if something went wrong with it, you had to give it a sharp thump!!

[yola]

Yup - I was the telly thumper in our house (coz parents couldn't be bothered to get out of chairs )

[Moli]

I remember the test card on the tv!!!